"Did you tell her?" Carl said in his nosey robot way as he saw Cornelius walk up into his observatory/office

"Yes, Carl, I told her." he said plainly

"How'd it go?"

"How do you think?" he said plopping onto his rolly chair.

"Judging by your tone I'm going to guess not so well."

"You think?"

"Did you blow it?"

"I don't know Carl"

"Is she gone forever?"

"I don't know!" getting agitated

"What happened?"

"After I told her, she said she needed time to process. I tried talking to her more but she said she needs space."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"How should I know?!"

*DING DONG*

"Who's that?" Carl asked.

"Maybe dad ordered pizza?" he hoped for a moment that it was Franny but he knew it was just wishful thinking. He turned to start sketching and writing math equations until he faintly heard his mother say,

"BUD, FRANNY'S HERE!"

"Franny?" Carl said to Cornelius

Cornelius put down his pencil and wheeled his chair around to leave his desk.

"So when she said she needed space-" Carl started

"Not now Carl!" Cornelius said as he rushed down the stairs. Once he got to the ground floor he could now hear their conversation as he quietly approached the front of the house.

"About the time travel thing." he heard Franny clarify to his parents.

This is bad. If she tells them I went to the future, who knows how much things could change!

He thought as he picked up his pace.

"Ooo Cornelius started working on time travel has he? Good for him!" Bud said.

"No not that, about how he-" franny started.

"Franny! You're here!" Cornelius said showmanship like walking in.

"Ya I came by to talk to you about the future thing that-" she was cut off once again, now looking slightly irritated.

"I've been working on. yes, great! You can help me with that upstairs."

"Help you with wh-" she said confused.

"Thanks mom, dad for getting the door for me!"

"No problem son!" Bud yelled out to his son who was already upstairs.

"What was that about?" Franny said putting her hands on her hips

"I haven't told them yet."

"What?!"

"I haven't told anyone because I've been too afraid of changing things. I liked my future too much to risk effecting it."

"But you told me?" she said raising an eyebrow.

"Despite my best efforts!" Carl said.

"Nobody asked you!" Cornelius added.

"I told him it was a danger to the timeline!" Carl said in a 'i told you so' kinda way

"and I told you that Franny's different and deserved to know!" he said nearly yelling at Carl and forgetting Franny was there for a moment.

"Different, huh? Now I feel like I've gotten special treatment." she said flirtatiously.

"Well I mean- it's not that- I mean you are- special- er- different- good- that's not- ok- wait. why- what did you want to talk to me about?"

"I was thinking about it and I realized that if nothing is definitely going to happen then you could've changed your future anytime! Which means you didnt have to date me at all. If you didnt want to then you didnt have to, your future would change and that'd be that. But you stuck with it anyway... why?"

"I meant it when I said, I fell in love with you... I am in love with you Franny... and our family." he said putting his hand on hers.

"I thought you were going to say all that! But had to be sure. Now about this family of ours, I have a few questions that I-"

"wait... so you're not going to break up with me?"

"Of course not! You're still my Cornelius! My stupid Cornelius that thought I couldn't handle some little time travel information. Now go on, how many kids do we have in the future? What are their names? What are they like? How old are they?"

"Woa woa woa there. I can't spoil everything for you!"

"Oh come on why are you the only one who gets to know these things? Can't you just tell me a little? It's my future too you know. I'd like to know the kids I'm going to carry inside me for 9 months!"

"Ok fine I'll tell you our son's name. Wilbur."

"Wilbur? oh oh like your best friend Wilbur? We name our son after your friend?"

"... didn't I mention that our son likes to time travel a lot? I mean, since I was 12, he's never stopped, he just kept coming back"

"... you're not saying that your best friend is our-" she asked as he smiled, "WILBUR IS OUR SON?!"

"That's what I just said isn't it?"

"You mean I've eaten dinner with our son and didn't know it?!"